Big blow for Team Esbjerg as Danish international keeper turns down contract extension

Anna Kristensen will leave Team Esbjerg next year
Anna Kristensen will leave Team Esbjerg next yearPhoto: Niels Husted

Danish international goalkeeper Anna Kristensen will leave Team Esbjerg when her contract runs out on 30 June next year. The club has been in negotiations with Anna Kristensen for a long time and has offered her a contract extension, but the 25-year-old goalkeeper has chosen to continue her career at another club says Team Esbjerg in a press release.

"We have for a long time wanted to extend the collaboration with Anna Kristensen, who, however, wants to seek new sporting challenges, and we fully understand that. She came to Team Esbjerg as an international talent and has further developed her skills by establishing herself in the national team and among the world's best goalkeepers. We wish Anna good luck in the new club," says Chairman of the Board Bjarne Pedersen. 

Anna Kristensen entered into a three-year agreement with Team Esbjerg with effect from 1 July 2023, but the then Viborg HK player joined almost six months earlier, when the club urgently needed a goalkeeper due to injury and pregnancy. 

She has helped to win two Danish championships, three cup titles, the Super Cup, and two bronze medals in the EHF Champions League Final4.

Her international career includes 49 matches for Denmark before the upcoming World Championships in the end of November.

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